Disruptive technology has received much attention as it has changed how consumers consume tourism offerings by creating new companies such as Uber. Technology remains the most powerful external force that is shaping the world today, impacting on all aspects of life. The technology used by Uber is smartphone compatible and this means that the taxi is requested at ‘the palm of a hand’. The veloci...

TAXI-I (Triticum aestivum xylanase inhibitor I) is a wheat grain protein that inhibits arabinoxylan fragmentation by microbial endo-beta-1,4-xylanases used in the food industry. Although TAXI was speculated to be involved in counterattack against pathogens, there is actually no evidence to support this hypothesis. We have now demonstrated the presence of TAXI family members with isolation of tw...

Taxi service is an indispensable part of public transport in modern cities. The taxi system is operated by a large number of self-controlled drivers lacking of centralized scheduling and control, which makes it inefficient, difficult to analyze and optimize. It is thus important to take into account taxi drivers’ strategic behavior in order to optimize taxi systems’ efficiency. This paper revie...

This paper assumes that all taxi drivers adopt a profit maximization strategy when searching for customers. Some taxi drivers are provided with real-time information on customer and taxi queue lengths at all taxi stands while others have no information at all. The questions to be investigated are: (1) will equipped taxi drivers earn a higher profit compared to the uninformed taxi drivers? (2) W...

The fast advancement in sensor data acquisition and communication technology greatly facilitates the collection of data from taxis, and thus enables analyzing the citywide taxi service system. In this paper, we present a novel and practical system for taxi service monitoring, analytics and visualization. By utilizing both of the buffered streaming and the large-size historical taxi data, the sy...

The current taxi operation mode features high ratio of vacant taxies roaming the streets, while lots of potential customers complaining being unable to find a taxi. The major reason for this inefficiency is that the current taxi dispatch system is incapable of exchanging information between taxi drivers, customers and the dispatch system in a real-time manner. This paper presents an approach to...

This paper describes a taxi scheduling system to improve the efficiency of taxi services which are mainly implemented by means of street hailing. This is of particular relevance to Chinese cities, where this is by far the most common way in which taxis are requested, since the majority of taxi drivers are independent rather than being affiliated with a specific company. The mobile phone and GPS...

Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships might facilitate unsafe sexual practices and increased risks for both the men and the young women, often referred to as taxi queens, remains an important question in the l...

This research focuses on utilizing typically overlooked taxi manifest data to analyze taxi operations with respect to transit, and also presents alternative uses for the data in transportation planning. Taxi travel characteristics are explored for Arlington, Virginia, a county containing both urban and suburban qualities. Previous research contends that manifest data can provide valuable quanti...

We proposed and developed a taxi-sharing system that accepts taxi passengers’ real-time ride requests sent from smartphones and schedules proper taxis to pick up them via ridesharing, subject to time, capacity, and monetary constraints. The monetary constraints provide incentives for both passengers and taxi drivers: passengers will not pay more compared with no ridesharing and get compensated ...